Matendou Sonata 16 Celestial Sonata 16 Amagi Sayuri Princess Comics/ Akita Shoten 1992 ISBN 4-253-07649-1 Translation by Emily Horner ehorne2@po-box.mcgill.ca 2001 Contents Soulmate (finale) p. 5 Chapter 21 Soulmate (finale) A song from a distant world Lucifa : {"Please, don't hurt Lucifa." What is it? I've never really touched anyone's heart before. Why did he sound so desperate?} <> Lucifa : {"I love Lucifa." Love?} --I brought the boy from before. Satanikya : Come in. <> Satanikya : You certainly are a creature of Heaven. When I see something so glittering white and beautiful, I want to tear it apart. Perhaps you could say that's in a demon's nature. <> Satanikya : When I look at an angel's pure white wings, I want to burn them with flames until they disintegrate to ashes. And I want to stain your clear eyes, too. <> Gabriel : {Please be alive.} Gabriel : {Michael...} Satanikya : Your weakness is pitiful. This is the world demons live in; the weak are to be controlled and mistreated by the strong, and to have their lives taken from them. You belong to me. I may let you live, as long as I do not grow tired of you. Michael : I don't belong to you! Satanikya : What? Michael : I don't pity my weakness. I'd never want a power that can only hurt other people anyway! <> --Come out. The Duke has called for you. <> Lucifa : Michael! Lucifa : You bastards! Satanikya : I was most vexed that he continued to oppose me. He said that he would not be mine even if I could control his body. Therefore, I must put my seal on him. <> Lucifa : {A brand!} Satanikya : It is the crest of my family. <> Lucifa : Please, don't do it! Stop! <> Michael : {Ow...it burns!} Michael : {Save me!} Lucifa : {Michael!} <> Lucifa : {I won't forgive them!} <> Lucifa : You're awake? Michael : Lucifa... Lucifa : I'm sorry, Michael. I didn't have the power to help you. {Why am I crying?} I'm sorry. {I didn't think I had any tears left.} <> Michael : Don't cry, Lucifa. I'm all right. Lucifa : Why are you pretending to be strong? You're *not* all right, after what they did to you! I hate myself for not being able to do anything. I wanted to protect you... If I had the power of the dark jewels, then even I'd be able to kill them! Michael : You can't wish for something like that. <> Lucifa : I want power! I want enough power to destroy Hell, and all the demons in it! Michael : Lucifa, those who wish for the power to destroy will themselves be destroyed someday. If you're going to wish for something, wish for the power to give life to things and make them grow. <> Lucifa : Don't you hate them? Michael : Nothing would come of hating them. I think that somewhere even those people have hearts that feel that forests and lakes and flowers are lovely. I'd like to believe that. <> Lucifa : {Micael...} Satanikya's army left Riyadh and burned down a number of towns. They killed the inhabitants of Heaven and looted gold, silver, jewels, and provisions. Finally they advanced towards the south... <> Other noble demon clans joined him as he advanced by the south, provoked by Satanikya's actions, in order to capture the Sky Blues sealed inside the southern temple. <> Satanikya : It would seem you've had another encounter with the soldiers. You should give up any thoughts of running away; you'll only get hurt more. Lucifa : Where's Michael? I haven't seen him in days. Is he safe? Satanikya : Of course. I shall let you see him at once. <> Michael : Lucifa! Lucifa : Michael... Satanikya : Well then... <> Satanikya : Commence their execution. It has been seven days. I grew tired of you very quickly... there were dozens of others that I had killed after only two days. There's no great difference between two days and seven; playthings are to be thrown away when one gets bored of them. <> Satanikya : Lucifa will be first, Michael. I want to see you cry out. You will watch every moment of it as I kill him. Lucifa : {So this is how I'll die. A normal person can't stand up to a demon. I'm a weakling, about to be killed like an insect.} <> Satanikya : Fire. Michael : Lucifa! <> Satanikya : The next time will be the end, Lucifa. Do you have any parting words for Michael? Lucifa : {Why do I have to be so powerless, just like when I was a kid?} <> Michael : No, stop! Don't kill him! Lucifa : {He's crying...I'm sorry. I wanted to save you, at least.} <> --Silence! Lucifa : {If I had the power of those dark jewels...} Satanikya : You must want the power of the dark jewels. With those jewels, it would be possible to turn all of Heaven to black ashes in a moment. It would even be possible to kill us easily. <> Satanikya : But no matter how much you wish for that, you might as well wish for the moon reflected on the surface of the water. Even we noble demons cannot call on the power of those sealed gems. Until we go to the temple and break the seal, we will not get their power. Satanikya : Is this the end? Cry all you like. Plead for me to spare his life. --/Feel rage and hatred, Lucifa! Wish for our power!/ Lucifa : {Who is that?} <> --/We are the Sky Blues./ Lucifa : {The dark jewels?} --/Do not be killed by Satanikya; you are the one who deserves to call upon our power. No one but you can release us from here./ Lucifa : {Quiet!} <> Lucifa : {I don't want your power! Vanish, evil!} Michael : Spare Lucifa. Satanikya : What was that? I couldn't hear you. Michael : Don't kill him! Please spare his life! <> Lucifa : {Michael...if I die, he'll be killed as well!} --/Right. He will be killed by the demons. Can you accept that?/ <> Lucifa : {"I love Lucifa. It's strange, but I feel like I've felt that way for a long time."} No! {I won't let him die!} <> Satanikya : Fire. Lucifa : Jewels of darkness, give me the power to destroy the demons! <> --What's this trembling!? Lucifa : {Michael?} <> Lucifa : Michael! Michael : The dark jewels...you musn't... Lucifa : But I didn't want to die! I wanted to save you! Michael : But that makes you the same as the demons you hate. It's an evil power that can only be used for destruction. Lucifa : I...did this? Michael : That's right. Lucifa : And I hurt you, too! <> Michael : It seems that you're able to call upon their power. Promise me that you'll never wish for it again. Lucifa : All right. Don't talk any more. We've gotta run away. Can you stand up? Michael : No...my body feels so heavy. Michael : Don't worry about me. You run away. Lucifa : Don't say that! Michael : Hurry. Lucifa : Michael! {I don't want to lose you...I've finally found you...} <> Lucifa : {My soul mate!} <> Lucifa : {I was...an angel? The arrow wounds are healing...do I have healing power?} --Did you do this? Wait! <> Lucifa : {God, I thank you for giving me wings.} --It's an angel! --Get him, he's running away! <> Lucifa : {I still can't use my healing power consciously. I guess I can't help it, since I just became an angel a little while ago. That brand...I didn't understand it clearly then, but...} <> Lucifa : {It's the same as the flag the soldiers held up as they went from town to town. It's the same snake that flew in the air on the day they burned my village and killed my parents. It was him...Satanikya!} <> --There he is! --Don't think you can run away from us and live! Lucifa : {Is this the end of the line?} <> --Is that a soldier? Gabriel : Come here! I'll be your opponent. <> --Kill him! <> Gabriel : That was close. Gabriel : Are you a survivor from Schemia? Lucifa : No, I was captured in Riyadh. Gabriel : Riyadh!? Michael! Lucifa : Do you know him? Gabriel : Wake up, Michael! Gabriel : It's me, Gabriel! <> Gabriel : Michael's wounds were serious, but I stopped the blood. Lucifa : Can you use healing magic? Gabriel : A little. It's probably because of fatigue that his eyes won't open. He must be exhausted. Lucifa : {Michael...} Gabriel : You should get some rest, Lucifa. One person on watch is enough. Lucifa : I'm fine. Gabriel : You must be tired too, and we're leaving at dawn. <> Gabriel : We need to get back to the temple as quickly as possible. Lucifa : All right. Thank you for saving my life. Gabriel : I should be thanking you, for staying with him ever since Riyadh. Thank you. Lucifa : I... Michael : Where am I? Lucifa : Don't worry, Michael. We're safe. Michael : Really? Lucifer, your arrow wounds... Lucifa : This? <> Michael : You were an angel! Lucifa : Mmm... Michael : {Lucifa?} And you're gifted with healing power? Wow! There aren't that many people who can use it. Lucifa : I don't really know how to use it. Michael : {Something about him's changed.} Lucifa : I grew wings, and I realized that my wounds were healing. Michael : It must have been some latent or subconscious power at work. You'll get better at using it, I'm sure. Lucifa : I'm awful. I hurt you with the power of the dark jewels, and unconsciously healed my own wounds. <> Lucifa : Why did God give me white wings after I wished for that evil magic? Michael : Don't think like that. I'm just glad that you're safe. Lucifa : {Your eyes aren't a bit stained. They seem like glittering jewels to me.} <> Gabriel : Are you awake, Michael? Michael : Gabriel! What are you doing here? Gabriel : I was on my way back to Riyadh when I found you two last night. What happened to the city? Were there any other survivors? Michael : I don't know. Very many were killed...my father was killed fighting the demons, and... Michael : My mother...my mother... Gabriel : I see...I'm sorry for dragging up painful memories. Lucifa : {Do they glitter the same way for him?} <> Lucifa : {He's watched over Michael for much longer than I have. Gabriel's a warrior. He can fight demons without wishing for the dark jewels' power. But I...} Lucifa : {"The evil power--the Darkness--gnawing at the world is contained in stones called the "dark jewels." You must never wish for that kind of power, Lucifa. You mustn't."} <> --All the soldiers who chased after them were killed. Satanikya : I see. I did not believe that it would be possible for him to call on the power of the dark jewels. Satanikya : {What on earth are you, Lucifa?} Lodiss, we leave here tomorrow morning! --But Duke, your body is still-- Satanikya : Silence! I cannot stay in bed with these wounds for much longer. The temple is still far. <> Michael : Don't come in until I get out! Gabriel : What are you, a woman? Michael : Well, just don't! Gabriel : He must be self-conscious about that brand. Lucifa : You knew about that? Gabriel : Yes, when I was treating his wounds. Lucifa : It's Duke Satanikya's crest. Couldn't you make it disappear with your healing magic? Gabriel : No. It's printed on with black magic. It won't disappear as long as Satanikya lives. <> Lucifa : Then...he's still alive? Gabriel : Can you tell me what happened until now? Lucifa : All right. <> Michael : {It'll disappear someday.} Gabriel : You just let Michael sacrifice himself? Lucifa : I wasn't strong enough to do anything about it! Gabriel : I don't want to hear your excuses. If I'd been with him, I'd never have let it happen to him! If I'd been in Riyadh--! Lucifa : {Gabriel...} Gabriel : Michael is a child of 14. And you let him fall into the clutches of those filthy demons. <> Lucifa : Gabriel...do you love Michael? Gabriel : You can laugh at me if you like. Lucifa : {After all my journeys, I found Michael...and he looked at me so sweetly.} Lucifa : {I thought I'd found my soulmate. Was that nothing but wishful thinking?} Listen, Gabriel, I cursed my own powerlessness! I wanted to save Michael! {I'm no match for him.} Lucifa : And because of that, I wished for the dark jewels' power. They answered me. Gabriel : Impossible! Lucifa : It's thanks to that that I was able to escape from the mansion in Schemia. <> Gabriel : If that's true, then you aren't an angel. Calling on the dark jewels' power is the act of a demon! My travels with you end here. You can't go with me. Lucifa : Gabriel! Gabriel : Think of what you've done! I won't let those with hands stained with evil get close to Michael! --/Give up, Lucifa. We've waited a long time for someone who had such power hidden in him./ Lucifa : Stop it! I became an angel! I was stupid when I called on the jewels' power! Gabriel : Lucifa? --/You became an angel? Don't be ridiculous./ <> --/You've already used our power./ Lucifa : Go away! Please, go away! Gabriel : What's wrong with you? Lucifa : {"You aren't an angel. It's the act of a demon!"} <> Gabriel : Stop! --/Lucifa, break the angel's neck./ Gabriel : {This isn't Lucifa!} Lucifa : {Let go!} --/You cannot go back now, Emperor of Darkness./ Lucifa : {Emperor of Darkness?} --/You shall rule the heavens, and the earth./ <> --/You shall become Satan./ Michael : Lucifa! <> Michael : Let go of Gabriel! --/This light...the Archangel, Michael?/ <> Lucifa : I...what have I done? Michael : No, that wasn't you just now. Lucifa : {Michael...} Michael : No! If Lucifa isn't going, then neither am I! Gabriel : Michael, he tried to kill me! It's dangerous to travel with someone stained with the power of the dark jewels. Something like this could happen again. <> Lucifa : It's better for us to part now. Michael : No! Lucifa, you're Lucifa. You're not dyed with evil. Have faith in yourself. Lucifa : Michael...you really were an angel. Michael : Huh? Lucifa : That first time we met in the forest, I thought I saw wings on your back. Lucifa : Pure white wings... Michael : Aren't you an angel, too, Lucifa? We've gone through so much together. Let's keep going together. <> Gabriel : I guess I've got no choice. Fine, you can take him. If I said something, you wouldn't listen anyway, and besides, I don't want you to have a grudge against me. Lucifa : I'm sorry, Gabriel. Gabriel : If the same thing happens again, I won't hesitate to kill you. Lucifa : That's all right. Michael : You're going already? Gabriel : The 12th platoon left for Parie three days ago. I have to catch up to them. Michael : Please come back from this, Gabriel. Gabriel : Don't worry. I am a soldier, after all. <> Gabriel : I'm more worried about you coming back alive. You'll be sent to the battlefield after only a short period of training. Think of protecting yourself before killing the enemies. Michael : Right. Gabriel : Take care of Michael, Lucifa. Lucifa : I will. 1 week after Gabriel's departure... <> Michael and Lucifa went out to the battlefield as soldiers. After three months of being attacked by the more numerous soldiers of heaven, the demons started to cede ground. Fighting continued in each of the regions of Heaven, but finally even the army of Neviros, which had advanced quite close to the palace, was disbanded. --We have God's protection on our side! Heaven will never be ruled by the demons! The war was over seven months after Duke Satanikya's army had first started advancing. Michael : Gabriel! Gabriel : Sorry I was late. Michael : I'm just glad you're safe, I was starting to get worried! Gabriel : Did you hurt your leg? Michael : Yeah, but it's fine now. The swords are so heavy and everyone's so bad at wielding them that our legs all hurt. <> Michael : I nearly died twice, but Lucifa healed me. Gabriel : Oh... Michael : Lucifa spent the same amount of time training as I did, but he's way better than me with a sword. He'll be as good as you soon, Gabriel. <> Gabriel : Looks like he's calm now...he fell asleep. So, you have some healing power too? Lucifa : I've gradually learned how to use it on the battlefield. Gabriel : Thank you for saving him. Lucifa : You don't need to thank me. I don't know what I'd do if I lost him. I was so scared I thought I was going to go crazy. {And I heard the voice of the dark jewels many times, in the midst of the fighting.} <> Gabriel : Lucifa, you're... Lucifa : Yeah...it looks like we're rivals in love. Lucifa : I'm sorry for calling you out here. Michael : That's OK. Lucifa : It's been a while, hasn't it? Michael : We don't see each other much, though we're in the same castle. Lucifa : I've seen you many times, always with Gabriel...somehow I never dared call out to you. Michael : Why? Lucifa : Good question. But tonight I just felt like seeing your face. Michael : Gabriel went to guard the sealed palace the day before yesterday. <> Michael : Even though the war is over, it's still being heavily guarded. Lucifa : That's because there are people who want the dark jewels' power even in Heaven...like me. Michael : What? Lucifa : I've told you that I wanted to destroy Hell. Otherwise, these eternal wars will never stop between our two worlds. Lucifa : The peace now is uncertain. They will attack again, and again, until Heaven becomes theirs. They'll never give up! And if war starts again...this time, I might really lose you. I'm scared of that...too scared to bear it! <> Michael : Forget about the war, Lucifa. Lucifa : Forget? How can I forget how they killed my parents and burned my village to the ground? <> Lucifa : How can I forget the man who burned that symbol into your body? --/Yes, defile the angel, as Satanikya did./ <> --/Then you will lose his light forever./ Michael : No... Lucifa : I'm sorry...I don't know what came over me. <> Michael : Nothing comes from hate. Lucifa : Revenge does. Michael : Lucifa, what are you... Earrings? Lucifa : I'm giving them to you. You don't have to wear them if you don't want to, but... Lucifa : I want you to keep them, always. Michael : But why? Lucifa : Good night, Michael. Michael : {Lucifa...} <> "The dark jewels were once one jewel; it was broken into two by God. One of the parts was sent to Earth, while the other was sealed in the southern temple. Because of their deep, cold blue color..." "They are also called the Sky Blues." Lucifa : {The Sky Blues...} {Southern Temple} <> --Who goes there? Gabriel : {Lucifa!?} Lucifa : Leave here at once, and I will not hurt you. --What are you saying? Gabriel : Lucifa, what business do you have here? Lucifa : I'm going to get the power of the Sky Blues. --Don't be stupid! Lucifa : I'm going to release them from their seal. Leave right now if you don't want to be hurt. --We are the guards of the Southern sealed temple. We cannot allow that. Lucifa : Then I have no choice. <> Gabriel : {Why does he want this black magic so much? Is it to get revenge on Satanikya? Doesn't he care if he has to sacrifice his own body? Lucifa!} <> Lucifa : O dark jewels, sealed deep inside the past... Gabriel : Stop! Lucifa : Break your sleep, now! Gabriel : Stop, Lucifa! <> --Listen, Lucifa. Though though hast the body of an angel... Gabriel : {God?} --All fools who request the black magic of the Sky Blues must... <> --Accept the judgement of Heaven on yourself! Gabriel : {Lucifa!?} <> --That is the color of thy sin. <> --I have given thee a form suited for one who wishes for such evil power. <> Gabriel : Lucifa... Lucifa : Don't look at me! <> Gabriel : Lucifa! <> --I can't believe an angel would do such a fearful thing. --Nearly all the guards were injured. --What a disaster, Gabriel. <> --Is your arm all right? Gabriel : It's nothing serious. --You knew Lucifa, didn't you? Gabriel : Excuse me, I'm looking for a friend. --{Well, that was rude!} Michael : What everyone's talking about...is it true? Gabriel : Yeah. The seal wasn't broken... Gabriel : God stopped his foolish action. Michael : What happened to Lucifa? Gabriel : He's dead. Michael : You're lying. <> Gabriel : He incurred God's wrath and was struck by lightning. Michael : That's not true! He was fine just last night... Gabriel : I know you don't want to believe it, but he's gone. Forget about him, for your own sake. <> Michael : I won't believe it! I won't! Gabriel : Michael! {Forget about him, Michael.} <> Gabriel : {That must be what Lucifa wants, too.} Lucifa : {From now on, this is the place where I will live.} <> Lucifa : {Hell. For I have become one of the demons I so hated. I'll never see Michael again. Lucifa, the angel, has died!} --An invader? --I'm very sorry, Lodiss-sama, but for the past two months someone who possesses great magic power has been laying waste to castles in various places. Could he be... --{Where in the world did he come from?} <> Lucifa : Come out, Satanikya! It has been a long time, Lodiss. --Who are you? Lucifa : The "boy" you caught in Riyadh... <> Lucifa : ...come to thank you for what happened four years ago. --Lucifa!? Satanikya : The boy from back then? Why do you look like that? Lucifa : There you are at last. I came to Hell to kill you. That's the only reason I've stayed alive until now. {Even in this form...} Lucifa : Die, Satanikya! <> --/Kill, kill! You are Satan, the ruler of darkness! When you have captured all the land in Hell, then, at last, you will free us from our prison!/ Satanikya : {I can feel waves of the dark jewels' power inside him...} --Duke! <> --/Yes...spill great amounts of blood, and become strong. Kill, kill, and become strong enough to surpass God himself!/ --You! Satanikya : Don't hurt him, Lodiss. This is my fight. <> Satanikya : Do you intend to become the ruler of Hell? <> --Satanikya-sama! Lucifa : The Duke is dead. Aren't you going to flee? --I have only served one master in my life. My death will be with him, as my life has been. You may kill me. Survival of the fittest; that is the law of Hell. <> Lucifa : That's right. But don't you find it miserable to have never lived in any other world? --No. My life has been a happy one. Lucifa : {Perhaps these people love angels as much as they hate them...} <> Lucifa : {Perhaps, just as much as they want to destroy Heaven, they wish that they had been born there.} --/On to the next castle, the next slaughter./ Lucifa : It ends here. --/What?/ Lucifa : Satanikya is dead. That is enough. My revenge is over; I'll no longer be the tool of your ulterior motives. --/You wish to end your life? No. You are Satan. The chosen one must not die. You would only be reborn immediately./ Lucifa : Maybe so... --/Why? The light inside of you.../ Lucifa : I won't become Satan. <> Lucifa : {I won't become the ruler of Hell. Leila's prophecy was only half right. I didn't support the world.} <> Lucifa : {I'm happy to have met you, Michael...even though, in the end...} <> Lucifa : {I could never tell you that I loved you.} <> Gabriel : The brand disappeared? Michael : Yeah. When I woke up this morning, it was just gone. Gabriel : So Satanikya is dead... Michael : Is that why? Gabriel : Yes. Michael : I wonder how he died... Gabriel : Well...the inhabitants of Hell like killing each other. Gabriel : He could have been killed in one of the many quarrels between the noble demon clans. Michael : {"The man who burned that symbol into your body"...} Is Lucifa really dead? Gabriel : Do you still refuse to believe it? It's been two months. Michael : I heard his voice yesterday. Gabriel : His voice? Michael : I was sure I heard him call my name. <> Gabriel : Are you sure it wasn't just your imagination? Michael : It wasn't! Please tell me the truth, Gabriel! Lucifa's alive, isn't he? Gabriel : Were you...in love with him? Michael : He was a dear friend. Gabriel : And nothing more? <> Michael : I did love him. I wanted to be with him...I didn't want him to leave. {I don't know why I always felt that way, but I did.} When we were caught by Duke Satanikya, I was all right, because he was there. I'm in more pain now than I was then. If he really is dead, then I want to be there with him. <> Gabriel : Don't think like that! Michael : But I can't stand it! I can't bear going to sleep at night, and waking up in the morning, and knowing that Lucifa isn't there! Gabriel : {Michael...} Michael : I wish I could just not wake up when morning came! Gabriel : No, I won't let you! You're alive... <> Gabriel : You need to keep on living. Michael : I don't want to be alone. Gabriel : You're not alone! I'm here. Michael : I'm sorry, Gabriel. Gabriel : {Am I not good enough, Michael?} <> Gabriel : Lucifa is alive. Michael : Where is he? Gabriel : Forgive me...that's all I can say. Michael : Thank you, Gabriel. If Lucifa's alive, that's enough for me. {I can keep on living here in Heaven.} <> --Are you serious? Fatale : Yes. I have contained the Darkness that had for so long spread across the world and brought death to sorcerors and humans alike. --I can't believe it. --God had said that angels could do nothing about the Darkness, because it was born of humans' own evil energies. <> --And yet you, as a person born on earth, sealed the Darkness yourself...Fatale, was it? Fatale : Yes. --No matter how much of a sorceror you may be, you are human. It does not seem as if a single human could have the power to seal the Darkness. Fatale : I have found the legendary Sword and Shield of Adriuma. <> --They really exist? Fatale : When I first held the sword, I heard the voice of God. --Of God? Fatale : God told me, "Seal in the darkness at the place which I shall show thee," and I was led to Hell. --You sealed the Darkness in Hell? Fatale : Yes. Deep underground, in an uninhabited castle in the wastelands of Hell. <> --But Hell overflows with violence and slaughter. Is such a place... Fatale : Not to worry. It is a place where the black magic that squirms and wriggles all through Hell is extremely weak. --I see...well, if it is the will of God, my worries may be unfounded. Fatale : Archangel, Hell will change, and its ruler will be one with a strong soul, who will not awaken the Darkness. After that, Fatale created a new space, the "Realm of Magic," between Heaven and Hell. <> It became impossible for demons to invade Heaven, and the cities of Heaven were no longer burned by the fires of war. Lucifa : Why am I alive? Fatale : You had already breathed your last breath by the time I found you. <> Fatale : I carried you here and revived you, and since then I have been waiting for your awakening. Lucifa : You revived me!? Who are you? Fatale : My name is Fatale. I am a sorceror of Earth. Lucifa : {A sorceror?} Why did you save me? Fatale : Because this world needs you. Lucifa : {Silver-blue hair...deep blue eyes...what a strange human.} <> Fatale : Underneath here is the Darkness. Theodric : Ah, you're awake? That's good, Fatale. Now Hell will be secure. Nice to meet you, Lucifa. I'm Theodric Seran. <> Fatale : I chose him from among all other humans as the most appropriate one to receive my magic power. Theodric will be the ruler of the Realm of Magic...and you, Lucifa, will be the ruler of Hell. Lucifa : How can you bring someone who committed suicide back to life and tell him to rule? Lucifa : You don't have the right to decide other people's lives! Fatale : This wasn's something I decided, Lucifa. It was God's will. Lucifa : What? Fatale : I am a servant of God. <> Theodric : Ever since the demons lost their goal of ruling Heaven, their civil wars have been becoming increasingly fierce. Hell has been torn apart by war in the three months since the Realm of Magic was created. They need a ruler to unite and govern Hell. Lucifa : But I took my own life so that I wouldn't be the Emperor of the Darkness, the tool of the Sky Blues! Fatale : You're wrong, Lucifa. Lucifa : How am I wrong? Fatale : You've escaped the jewels' control. The light within your soul saved you. Lucifa : {Light...} Fatale : You've met your soulmate, haven't you? <> Lucifa : How would you know that? Fatale : You will support the heavens together. Lucifa : {That's what Leila said...it wasn't a mistake? I'm Michael's...} <> Lucifa : Fatale, this picture... Fatale : It looks like me, but it isn't. It has been underground here since ancient times. Lucifa : {A sad and lonely face, but with great gentleness in it as well...} Fatale : Their is another picture that is its counterpart in the Temple of God in Heaven. <> Lucifa : {An angel...} Fatale : They are both pictures of the same young man. On top of the paintings, there are letters... In the distant future, A silver-blue boy will appear With the Sky Blues in his eyes This person, Born by the will of God, Shall be a child of Fate. When the Sky Blues Break free from their seal, The Moon Tear of Heaven Shall guide him to Hell. With the Moon Tear of Gold, He will seal one of these jewels Inside his own eyes Then, the evil Sky Blues Shall become holy jewels By the Moon Tear of Gold, He shall be released from his darkness Into the light of Heaven. The silver boy whose eyes are the Sky Blues Is a child of fate Whose power was sealed in by God. On the dawn of the forty-fourth day After he is given the Sword of the Seraphim, The Moon Tear of Light will cause that seal to be lost. He will then awaken to his true power And battle the ruler of Hell. The old ruler will be killed And a new one will rule this land, Ruling the endless sky and the sea of life As the 'Blue Emperor,' and finally Awaken a new Gaea. <> Lucifa : {'Blue Emperor'...a new emperor, to be born thousands of years in the future...seduced by the Sky Blues as I was, perhaps.} Theodric : It is a very large mission. Can one so fragile fulfill it? Fatale : I don't know. <> Fatale : The very existence of the Realm of Magic will be the seal on his powers. If my power disappears before that day...Theodric, please protect the Realm of Magic by any means necessary. Theodric : I will. Fatale spoke quietly of what was to happen in the distant future. The path that the silver-blue boy would have to walk was one of positive and negative, of light and darkness, always split into two. <> Fatale said that if the boy walked that path with sadness and despair, he would awaken the Darkness and become a ruler of death and destruction. Fatale : This is the Sword of Adriuma that sealed the Darkness. I entrust it to you, but I pray that you will never have to use it. Lucifa : The boy will be like a double-edged sword... <> Fatale : Yes. Only the Moon Tear of Gold will be able to save him. He will need only one thing: love that flows continuously like a spring...he will be a blue flower that will wilt if the flow of water is stopped for even an instant. Somehow, that's the feeling I get from this painting. Lucifa--or Satan, rather-- Fatale : Your mission is to govern Hell for the thousands of years that are to come, and to protect the peace with Heaven. Lucifa : Until the day that young man kills me? Fatale : Can you accept this? Lucifa : My body, which has died once... <> Lucifa : ...will try to live a new life, if it is my fate to do so. {With Michael.} Fatale : Then my work here is done. If my power vanishes, protect him from the Sky Blues. <> Theodric : Fatale!? Fatale : Farewell. May the heavens be built well. Lucifa : Fatale... {Thank you, silver-blue sorceror.} <> Afterwards, Lucifa took the name of "Satan" and conquered all the noble demons' castles. In the end, four of these demons pledged their loyalty to Lucifa: Baal, Astarte, Beelzebub, and Lucifer. They fought together and looked down upon the other demons who had attacked Heaven time and time again, but eventually they too stopped fighting their purposeless fights. They had been waiting for a strong leader who would unite Hell to appear. They became Lucifa's followers, and the reign of Hell's first rulers started. Lucifa made an offer of peace to Heaven, and a peace treaty was ratified between the two worlds in the Realm of Magic. <> Five years passed, and the Archangel of two thousand years was called on by God to end his reign. --The Archangel has arrived! <> Michael : Lucifa... <> Lucifa : Are you the new Archangel? Michael : Yes. I am called Michael. Gabriel : {So it was you after all, Lucifa.} Michael : I heard that you unified the chaotic, rulerless Hell in only one year. Lucifa : {Do you understand, Michael?} <> Lucifa : {Even in this form...} Michael : Being the Archangel is a burden too heavy for me to bear. I must carry it, since it is the will of God, but...as long as I can see you like this on the Summer and Winter Solstices, that's enough for me. Lucifa : {No matter how far apart the worlds we live in...} Lucifa : {My body and my soul are yours. I can go on living, if you are there, though you must continue to govern Heaven for thousands of years. Though I could never put it into words, in all my life, I've loved only you.} Lucifa : {We live in different worlds, Michael. I will never hold you in my arms again. But no matter how far apart we our, our hearts will always be nestled against each other, because you are my soulmate, and I am yours.} <> Lucifa : {We were born for each other.} The peace between the three worlds was preserved for many, many years. Finally, just a few hundred years before the present time, Baal of the Castle of Darkness found the prophecy in the painting, and the Archangel in the Temple of God found the prophecy in the Seraphim painting. <> And then, these two met, pulled along by the thread of fate. The Moon Tear of Gold was born in Heaven, and the boy of the Sky Blues was born in the Realm of Magic. A new tale begins...